{{Short description|American lawyer (born 1956)}} '''Michael Letwin''' (born 1956) is a public defender in Brooklyn, New York,.<ref name="Andersen 1995"/>
He is co-convener of New York City Labor Against the War (NYCLAW); a founding member of Labor for Palestine and former president of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys.<ref name="Andersen 1995">{{cite book |title=Consumer culture and TV programming |last=Andersen |first=Robin |page=184 |year=1995 |publisher=Westview Press |isbn=978-0-8133-1541-6 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Guide to the Michael Letwin Papers TAM.464 |url=https://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_464/ |access-date=2023-03-04 |website=dlib.nyu.edu}}</ref> In the 1970s, he was a leader of the ''Red Tide'', a newspaper and youth organization which he cofounded in 1971.<ref>{{cite book |title=The new left revisited |url=https://archive.org/details/newleftrevisited00mcmi |url-access=limited |last=McMillian |first=John Campbell |author2=Paul Buhle |author2-link=Paul Buhle |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newleftrevisited00mcmi/page/n131 125]–126 |year=2003 |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=978-1-56639-976-0 }}</ref>
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